HR Bloggers Corrupt the Youth of America

Last Sunday night the Grammys were on (poohw gib)[1].  I didn’t watch but I did read the list of winners the next day.  Taylor Swift and Beyonce were the big winners. But heavy metal wise, Judas Priest walked away with the honors of Best Metal Performance for “Dissident Aggressor”.

I’m not a Heavy Metal aficionado but I knew the Priest rocked years ago (wal eht gnikaerb)[2]. Still I thought it odd in 2010 they won a Grammy. So being the inquiring mind, I hit Wikipedia and sure enough the Priest are still putting out records (gnimoc gniht rehtona tog ev’uoy)[3]. For over thirty years, they’ve been gloriously making us bang our heads.  But the road has not always been smooth for the Priest.  Some very sad and unfortunate teenagers committed suicide in 1985 and the Priest were blamed due to subliminal messages in the song, “Better By You, Better Than Me”. They stood trial and the case was ultimately dismissed. But I remember when I was in high school, backmasking and subliminal messages in rock songs was a distressing issue for some.  Some concerned citizens were sending around a cassette tape that preached backmasking was Satan working through your favorite bands (yekcohesroh)[4].  With their subliminal messages kids were persuaded to commit sins, do drugs and be generally rotten.

Backmasking and subliminal messages have been around a long time (ghihtyreve wonk I)[5].  They have been and are still used in our favorite mediums: music, movies and television (skcor golb siht)[6] but you don’t hear much about this in Social Media.  Or maybe we just haven’t heard of it yet (golb ym daer ylno)[7]. I’m sure it’s all over You Tube (suomaf eb ot tnaw I)[8] and possibly lodged in those shortened HTML links on Twitter (em wollof)[9].

Most likely though you will find it in blogs written by HR pros.  I can’t explain it but every time I read Sharlyn Lauby (rednetrab rh)[10] I end up on a 3-day booze bender. I read Laurie Ruettimann (rh kcor knup)[11] and I find myself sticking safety pins in my cheeks.  I read Michael VanDervort (sesroh ecar namuh)[12] and I end up spending my weekly pay at the track.

And the list goes on and on (yppah em sekam golb siht)[13]. I’m telling you, the HR bloggers are disintegrating the fabric of our nation and corrupting the youth with their wayward messages.

All except for this blog.  But you knew that already, didn’t you?
 


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